Deeply, he bowed, touching the ground, before him who was sitting motionlessly, whose smile reminded him of everything he had ever loved in his life, what had ever been valuable and holy to him in his life.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Note 116 ( return ) [ Pocock's Description of the East, l. ii. c. 23, 24.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

So far as my outward surroundings were concerned, the only thing that I recall distinctly now is that when I got up, I saw thousands of eyes looking intently into my face.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Certainly, this is one aspect of a certain kind of Atheism—the Atheism of the man who reveres beauty to such an extent that his own ugliness, which outrages him, must be concealed from every eye lest it should not be respected as Zarathustra respected it.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I will not argue the matter: Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen: the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more——every thing presses on——whilst thou art twisting that lock,——see!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

] Note 39 ( return ) [ See Eusebius, l. ix. 6, 10.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But the speed comes to its end, the engagement loses its meaning and the hungry heart clamours for food, till at last she comes to the lowly reaper reaping his harvest in the sun.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

this river is said to be navigable nearly to it's source, which is at no great distance from the Saskashawan, and I think from it's size the direction which it seems to take, and the latitude of it's mouth, that there is very good ground to believe that it extends as far North as latitude 50°.—this stream passes through an open country generally.—the broken hills of the Missouri about this place exhibit large irregular and broken masses of rocks and stones; some of which tho 200 feet above the level of the water seem at some former period to have felt it's influence, fo they appear smoth as if woarn by the agetation of the water.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Nothing in their works seems to be done hastily or at random: every line is written for the eye of the connoisseur, and is shaped after some conception of ideal beauty.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

One variety enters largely into the composition of the animal fluids and solids, is coagulable by heat at and above 160°, and is composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, with a little sulphur.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

When I sold of a night, she would sit in the cart, unseen by them outside, and would give a eager look into my eyes when I looked in, and would hand me straight the precise article or articles I wanted.
— from Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

She had 29 a regular strawberry-ice-cream-soda complexion, and her eyes looked like a couple of glass alleys with electric lights in 'em.
— from Overland Red: A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Henry Herbert Knibbs

While I—well, with entreating arms about one's neck and pleading, tearful eyes looking into one's own, what could one do but promise to climb no more?
— from Alaska Days with John Muir by Samuel Hall Young

I have no doubt you are very vain of my constancy, and will be so when you read this; and it is right you should be, for, I promise you, in my 'robe, couleur de cerise,' looped with white roses, and my 'chapeau de paysanne,' I am a very pretty person indeed—at least, it seems a point the twelve judges agree upon, and the Master of the Rolls tells me, 'that with such long eye- lashes I might lift my eyes very high indeed.' “
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

Emotional Liabilities ¶ Impatience, mercurial emotions and the expenditure of too much of his electricity in every little experience are the tendencies most to be guarded against.
— from How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict

In Conringius de Antiquitatibus Academicis , where in every leaf it is proved that all cloisters were originally schools, I hit upon the reason.
— from The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings by Jean Paul

She was a woman of much literary talent, which found employment later in a novel, 'Agnes von Lilien', and in her excellent memoir of Schiller.
— from The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

This divides the mission of art from the aim of goodness in the sharpest and most positive manner, makes external beauty the aim of art, and even limits it to visible beauty.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf